| Intro | Italian pianist | |
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Musician Pianist Professor Educator |
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| From | Italy | |
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Academia Music |
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| Gender | male | |
| Birth | 6 April 1969, Polla, Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy | |
| Age: | 51 years | |
| Star sign | Aries | |
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Costantino Catena (born 1969) is an Italian pianist.
Biography and career
After graduating from the Giuseppe Martucci Salerno State Conservatoire under the guidance of Luigi D’Ascoli, Costantino Catena continued and completed his piano studies with Konstantin Bogino, Bruno Mezzena, Boris Bechterev and Aldo Ciccolini. He also studied composition and he graduated in Philosophy at the Salerno University and in Psychology at Second University of Naples.
His concert activity is as soloist and he is active in the field of chamber music too, collabor with leading artists such as Alessandro Carbonare, Michele Lomuto, Franco Maggio Ormezowski, Gabriele Geminiani, Massimo Quarta, Saschko Gawriloff, Sabrina-Vivian Hopker, Claudio Casadei, Lynne Dawson, Mauro Tortorelli, Maja Bogdanovich, Claudio Brizi, Aki Takahashi, Quartetto Savinio.
He chairs the piano professorship in the Domenico Cimarosa State Conservatoire in Avellino and he is recording artist for Camerata Tokyo since 2010.
Costantino Catena is Yamaha Artist.
Discography
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-28357 (2019) Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze & Humoreske – Schumann Piano Works 1 (Costantino Catena, piano)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-28356 (2018) Dedications—Schumann-Liszt / Costantino Catena plays the new Bösendorfer 280VC
- Brilliant Classics 95868 (2019) Wolf-Ferrari Piano Music (Costantino Catena, piano)
- Camerata Tokyo CMBD-80005 (2013) The Sound of the Concert Grand Fazioli F278: Costantino Catena plays Debussy and Schumann
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-28309 (2014) Richard Strauss and The Piano (Costantino Catena & Quartetto Savinio)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-15141〜2 (2 CD, 2016) Franz Liszt: Two Saints (Costantino Catena, piano)
- Aulicus Classics ALC 0024 (2019) Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for clarinet and piano op. 120, Trio for clarinet, cello and piano op. 114 (Giovanni Punzi, clarinet – Toke Møldrup, cello – Costantino Catena, piano),
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-28299 (2014) Franz Liszt: Piano Trios (Costantino Catena, piano – Paolo Franceschini, violin – Claudio Casadei, cello)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-28293 (2013) The Hidden Orchestra (Hiromi Okada & Costantino Catena, piano – Claudio Brizi, organ)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-99077~8 (2 CD, 2013) Harmonium Pearls (Claudio Brizi, harmonium – Costantino Catena & Carlo Palese, piano)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-15133〜4(2 CD, 2012) Franz Liszt: Venezia e Napoli (Costantino Catena, piano)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-28320 (2015) Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet op. 44 & Piano Quartet op. 47 (Costantino Catena & Quartetto Savinio)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-20109~10 (2 CD, 2011) Franz Liszt: Complete Works for violin and piano (Mauro Tortorelli, violin – Costantino Catena, piano)
- Da Vinci Classics C00015, 0806810877883 (2017) Antonio Salieri: Piano Concertos (Costantino Catena, piano – Orchestra del Conservatorio Domenico Cimarosa di Avellino – Antonio Sinagra, dir)
- Nuova Era International NE-7395(2005) Thalberg/Liszt: Works for violin and piano (Mauro Tortorelli, violin – Costantino Catena, piano)
- Phoenix Classics PH-99512 (1999) Ferenc Liszt: Musica per violino e pianoforte (Mauro Tortorelli, violin – Costantino Catena, piano)
- Camerata Tokyo CMCD-28346 (2017) Franz Schubert: 3 Klavierstucke D946 & Fantasie D940 (Aki Takahashi – Costantino Catena, piano),
- Oracle Records (2014) The greatest classical piano masterpieces (Costantino Catena, piano)
- Istituto Liszt (2008) Rarità lisztiane (Mauro Tortorelli, violin – Costantino Catena, piano)